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[Nuytsia]

Australorps...

Wonderful! We've had them a lot over the years as they are great layers as well as have a good temperament, but Rhode Island Reds seem to be the mainstays of our brood for some reason...I don't know why...possibly it's their colour that I go for?! Sometimes we buy them and other times breed them ourselves. I don't have cats anymore but I am a bit of a crazy chook lady. There's something really satisfying about not having to go to a shop to buy eggs, or being able to milk a cow or grow your own fruit and veg etc.

Wow snap! I was looking for either Australorps OR Rhode Island Reds! I just read about the various breeds and they sounded good. I couldn't believe how hard it was to get some though. There's all sorts of fruity chook breeds on offer here, but for some reason it took a while for me to find the Australorps (and I haven't seen any RIRs in our area at all). I also like the looks of both those breeds ..... the Austro's have such pretty black feathers with iridescent green! I love how big they get too! Our ones aren't super big (yet?) ... they are apparently 16 weeks old so not sure how much bigger they'll get?

We have 3 cats AND 3 chooks so I'm not sure WHAT sort of crazy lady that makes me!
Yeeeahh being self sufficient for eggs will be GREAT! Hehehe I felt all grumpy about going and buying crumby shop eggs the next day after we got the chooks!! (as they're too young to lay at the moment...)

Once we were having a few dramas with goannas so I took about two dozen chickens into the schoolroom with me for the day. I was busy teaching my two boys and my daughter was asleep on the floor (she was only a tiny baby at the time) when the door burst open and a goanna roared in and ate them all except one. It had torn its way through the gauze on the verandah and then got into the room. We had no choice but to dub the sole survivor 'Lucky'!
Have fun with your chooks...at least your cats will if they have a chance!

HOLY MOLEY that goanna must have been fast!
That's kind of scary (especially with your daughter there!).............. I have only seen them moving at a slow pace, never actually catching prey.

Yes I can see the chooks providing a LOT of entertainment value as well as eggs! I find it hilarious just to see the way they scratch things out of their way so assertively!
I don't think the cats have even seen them yet...... the chook run is easy to see from the kitchen window but you can't really see it from any other windows. It'll be interesting when they do 'meet'!
My mum has a 'visiting' chook that comes over from her neighbours' place...... she thought that was great fun until the chook chased her cat, ate her chives and scratched all the mulch from the garden bed over her patio....